On 13.10.2011, at 10:47, Rainer Stengele wrote: > Am 04.10.2011 23:04, schrieb John Wiegley: >>>>>>> Dave Abrahams <d...@boostpro.com> writes: >> >>> It always strikes me as odd that `f' in agenda view moves the item forward >>> by a day even if that leaves it still in the past. Typically if I have an >>> overdue item, I just want to schedule it for today or a certain number of >>> days in the future, and as it stands it's even a bit non-obvious when I've >>> finally bumped it up to today if it's a few days old. Shouldn't the first >>> `f' on an overdue item schedule it for today? >> >> Just to clarify, by 'f' dave means `org-agenda-date-later'. I believe he's >> using my keybinding for this command... >> >>> I'm happy to hack something locally if the group doesn't agree, but moving >>> things around in the past seems like such a corner case that I thought maybe >>> this would be a better default behavior. >> >> I agree with Dave here. 'f' on a past-dated item maybe should move it today >> on the first press, and then into the future on subsequent presses. >> >> John >> >> >> > +1 > > Me too I sometimes run into this situation where I just want to shift > past-dated items to today. > I never had a use case where I wanted to shift an item from "past" to > "past+n-days<today".
I think this is all very reasonable, and this is how it works now. - Carsten
